The 2023 Asian Games officially started on Saturday after a glittering opening ceremony in Hangzhou, China. While several events have already started at the 2023 Asian Games, with Indian athletes participating, the medal events will begin from Sunday (September 24). In the 2018 Asian Games medal tally, India finished eighth. At the 2023 Asian Games, the contingent will aim to finish higher on the medal table. India can win several medals on Sunday.
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India can take home medals in at least three sporting disciplines. The day starts for India with the women’s cricket semi-final against Bangladesh at 6.30 am IST. A win in the match will at least earn India a silver medal.
Then Indian shooters will also start their campaign with the 10m air rifle category. Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh and Ashi Chouksey will be in action.
The Indian rowers will also be in the picture. Indian lightweight double sculls duo of Arjun Lal Jat (bow) and Arvind Singh (stroke) also made it to the Final A. Satnam Singh (bow) and Parminder Singh have qualified for the final in Double Skulls. Indians also in Final A Women’s Four. Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram are playing in the Men’s Pairs Final A. The Indian team is also in the final of the Men’s Eights Final A.
In addition to men’s and women’s football, teams will also be in action. Boxers, led by Nikhat Zareen, will be in action.
2023 Asian Games September 24 (Sunday) Full schedule:
Boxing
Women’s Round of 16, 54kg: Preeti Pawar (IND) vs Silina Alhasanat (JOR) – 11:45 AM
Round 32, Women’s 50kg: Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs. Thi Tam Nguyen (VIE) – 4:30 PM
Cricket
Women’s Cricket Semi-Final 1: India vs Bangladesh – 06:30 IST
To play chess
Men’s Individual Rounds 1 and 2 (Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi) – from 12:30 PM
Individual rounds 1 and 2 ladies (Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli) – from 12.30 pm
Esports
FC Online Round of 32 and bracket matches (Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh Tikka) – from 8:00 AM
Football
Women’s Group B First Round: India vs Thailand – 1:30 PM
Men’s Group A First Round: India vs Myanmar – 5:00 PM
Screens
Men’s Individual Foil (Dev and Bibish Kathiresan) – from 6.30am
Women’s epee individual (Ena Arora and Taniksha Khatri) – from 10:00 AM
Hockey
Preliminary Men’s Pool A: India vs Uzbekistan – 8.45 am
Modern pentathlon
Men’s team: Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar – 3:00 PM
Rugby sevens
Women’s Pool F: India vs Hong Kong – 10:00 AM
Women’s Pool F: India vs Japan – 3:35 PM
Rowing
Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls Final B (Kiran, Anshika Bharti) – 6.30am
Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls Final A (Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh) – 7:10 am – Medal event
Men’s Double Sculls Final A (Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh) – 8:00 am – Medal event
Women’s fourth without four Final A (Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani) – 8:20 am – Medal Event
Men’s Coxless Final A (Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram) – 8.40am – Medal event
Men’s Eighth with Coxswain Final A (Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar) – 9:00 AM – Medal event
The sailing
Multi-category qualifying races (multiple athletes) – from 8:30 am
To shoot
Women’s 10m Air Rifle Qualification, Individual Final and Team Final (Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita) – from 6am – Medal event
Men’s 25 Meter Rapid Fire Pistol Qualification, Stage 1 (Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh) – from 6:30 AM
Swimming
Heats and final 100m freestyle men (Anand AS, Tanish George Matthew) – from 7.30am
Heats and final 100 meters backstroke men (Sriharni Nataraj, Utkarsh Santosh Patil) – from 7.30 am
Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats and final (Janhvi Choudhary, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Shivangi Sarma) – from 7.30am
Tennis
Men’s Doubles Round 1: India 2 vs Nepal 1 – from 9.30am
Men’s Singles Round 1: Sumit Nagal (IND) vs. Marco Ho Tin Leung (MAC) – from 9:30 AM
Table tennis
Women’s Team Round 16: India vs Thailand – 7.30am
Men’s Team Round 16: India vs Kazakhstan – 9:30 AM
Volley-ball
Men’s Rankings 1st-6th: India vs Japan – 12:00
Wushu
Changquan Men’s Final (Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam) – 6:30 AM
1/8 Men’s 56kg Final: Sunil Singh Mayanglambam (IND) vs Arnel Mandal (PHI) – from 5:00 PM – Medal event
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